How do we form a Blogging Site Of Our Own? Or maybe a Forum Of Our Own?
Oh god, I want that. Like, the best things on the internet, or the parts of it I use personally, are Ao3 and Wikipedia. They don’t steal my private data, they don’t harass their users, no, moreso, they’re for their users. For us. They survive on donations, and I’m very happy to donate to them whenever I can afford to, because they’re a service and they are so much better than the for profit alternatives. It’s crowd funding, isn’t it? We’re crowdfunding a community library and encyclopedia already. I’d be happy to donate to a Blogging Site of Our Own as well. Heck, I’d donate to Tumblr if that meant everyone can have fun here and we could get them to cut out some of their nonsense and focus on the good and fun things for the community using it.
Quick, I need a couple billions to buy Tumblr and gift it to the hellsite population. Where do I get a couple billions. Alternatively, we’ll need a couple million people with a handful of change each…
All of this for an industry that objectively makes people’s lives worse, that everyone openly hates, whose only goal is to manipulate people to buy things that they by definition do not need. And this isn’t even including TV and radio ads, conventional billboards, posters, construction, maintenance, design, all the countless hours of labor spent polluting our public spaces and our minds with the sole purpose of making the rich richer
Pro-Capitalist’s defense of capitalism is just explaining how it works, and then when you say “yes I know, I just think it shouldn’t be like that” they explain it to you again but angrier this time
They say “It’s fair because the people who own capital earn all the rewards” and then you say “I dont think owning capital entitles you to all the profits” and then their brain short circuits
“He invested capital”
“Yes and then a thousand other people did work while he sat around and profited.”
“But… he invested capital….”
they literally CAN NOT FATHOM that I know how capitalism works and just oppose it on moral grounds
You could make this shorter by just going “I’m a thief and refuse to pay for content”. Would save you a lot of time.
I’m a thief and refuse to pay for content and i encourage everyone else to do the same! Don’t be a little bitch like chemychems and jump aboard the ship, matey!
hmmm. not to be a communist on main but you deserve more than just necessities actually
I’m no scholar, but isn’t that the opposite of communism?
nah. im tired of leftists who are basically just social democrats in fancy hats saying people should have “basic necessities” and never talking about anything beyond that. of course housing, medicare, and food should be free. but so should higher education, public transportation, and clothes. money as a concept is holding us back. thats why this sentiment is communist- its advocating for a classless, stateless, moneyless society where workers are not just guarenteed the basics, but also the opportunities for even more.
but isn’t free high education, public transportation and clothes also basic needs??
They are but you’d be surprised at how many people don’t consider them to be
Ppl need entertainment too, a life just working is not a life at all, and yet how many ppl consider entertainment a basic necessity? Not only that, most ppl to different degrees consider that poor ppl don’t get to have nice things, fun things, dumb things, bc if they’re struggling then all the money must go to the most basic necessities. Not allowed to enjoy their money just for the sake of enjoyment, even tho not doing so makes life miserable
“Our demands most moderate are, we only want the earth” - James Connolly
anyone else feel slightly insane that this is the tagline of a multimillion dollar company releasing a bunch of cashgrab miniseries in order to milk a dying franchise even more. or have i just not slept well recently
mark fisher were really fucking in it now
if you don’t know the reference, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron, and it’s literally about how the revolution is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism and a passive consumerist outlook on political and social change
